Sources of light
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find the story that's right in your own backyard. And sometimes the things you think you know about that backyard —...
All Stories
Digging in the dirt, author Christopher Benfey unearths his family’s story
Most memoirs are mush. Given the tender emotions, fragile reminiscences and flights of fancy that tend to flit and twirl within your average autobiography, the genre is known for its...
Digging in the dirt, author Christopher Benfey unearths his family’s story
Most memoirs are mush. Given the tender emotions, fragile reminiscences and flights of fancy that tend to flit and twirl within your average autobiography, the genre is known for its...
Vroom with a view
So we drive. Things go wrong, we drive; things go right, we drive. Things go so-so — we drive then too. You almost get the idea that we grab any...
Vroom with a view
So we drive. Things go wrong, we drive; things go right, we drive. Things go so-so — we drive then too. You almost get the idea that we grab any...
New Granta is a must-read
Ever since I opened the latest issue of Granta, the British literary quarterly, I've been frantically calling friends and reading aloud vast swaths of prose. No sooner do I finish...
New Granta is a must-read
Ever since I opened the latest issue of Granta, the British literary quarterly, I've been frantically calling friends and reading aloud vast swaths of prose. No sooner do I finish...
Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak made incomparable art from childhood’s monsters
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's...
New leaf
To understand why the hiring of Brian Bannon as Chicago's public library commissioner caused a more-than-ordinary stir, let us quote a learned cultural authority. That authority is not Socrates. It...
Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak made incomparable art from childhood’s monsters
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's...